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Noah Rothman

Mayor Mike Bloomberg: The best thing that’s happened to Republicans since Citizens United

Bloomberg’s activism is the best thing to happen to Republicans since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United for three reasons. First, and most obviously, Bloomberg’s unashamed efforts to ban or curtail those pleasures his unelected bureaucrats deem harmful is unvarnished progressivism’s oldest and most distasteful impulse.

Second, Bloomberg is the physical embodiment of the hypocrisy the Democratic Party and the media display on campaign finance reform issues. Combined with the news that the liberal Tides Foundation had contributed five times more progressive causes than the oft-maligned libertarian Koch Brothers contributed to Republicans, Bloomberg’s financial contributions to liberal candidates demonstrates that progressives and the media establishment are only concerned about campaign finance issues when Democratic candidates are endanger of losing elections.

Finally, from a Republican’s perspective, Bloomberg is also having a much more beneficial effect on the political landscape than any reform the GOP could institute on its own. Bloomberg is singlehandedly helping the Democratic Party unlearn the lessons which led to the 1974 campaign reforms. …

Today, Bloomberg is actively fomenting a liberal, issue-oriented insurgency from within the Democratic Party. Undeterred by Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-NV) efforts to shield his vulnerable members from a damaging vote, Bloomberg leads a coalition of progressive voters forcing the party’s officials to the left of the electorate.

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That is, if it doesn’t collapse from insolvency. The good news: The Nanny State is too expensive to last. The bad news: We’re going to go through A LOT of suffering because of the economic ruin that is coming as a consequence.

That is, if it doesn’t collapse from insolvency. The good news: The Nanny State is too expensive to last. The bad news: We’re going to go through A LOT of suffering because of the economic ruin that is coming as a consequence.
wildcat72 on March 27, 2013 at 7:46 AM

I tell lots of people that if you are middle 50s now that you will never see the country like it was in their youth. They will die during the hell years of the leftest utopia. I doubt even our grandchildren will break the back of the left. I do believe that this country is done and nothing will save it in our lifetimes. Sad really. The thing that the left really doesn’t consider is that we are not Europe and I dread the day the country realizes what is taking place. Americans do it bigger and way better than anyone else and there will horrors we cannot imagine when the last straw breaks.